When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

In a monumental breakthrough, scientists have recreated the universe’s first molecule, helium hydride (HeH⁺), solving a puzzle that has baffled astronomers for over 13 billion years. The discovery ...

The efficacy of Titanium Dioxide in coating systems is dictated by the physics of light scattering. To achieve the desired ...

Earlier theories had forecast an appreciable drop in the reaction probability at low temperatures, but we could not confirm this either in the experiment or in new calculations by our colleagues on ...

In a discovery recently published in Nature, MIT chemists led by Professor Alison Wendlandt have developed a precision ...

An international team of scientists proved the never-before-seen molecule's exotic nature using a quantum computer, ...

An estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. contract infections each year from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. More than 35,000 of them die.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at MIT discovered a method to create a kind of particle accelerator using a molecule of radium monofluoride. Once excited by lasers in a ...

Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs Pythons follow the ultimate crash diet, swallowing an antelope in a single ...